#First Keystone

[zombirps]

Honestly the older I get the more I understand why sometimes children media doesn't have realistic endings to shows or movies.

Cause it's less about the ending- more about instilling values, or giving assurance to a child

Yeah did Steven Universe kind of handwave the whole 'genocidal diamonds' shit? Totally. But what lesson do you think is more important to give to a kid? 'All fascists need to die' or 'No matter how broken you are, you can still work to be a better person'?

A lot of the people who connected with SU were traumatized kids. Traumatized kids who often did shit they weren't supposed to, or were in abusive households where that sentiment really wasn't expressed. I think it's good to present a form of media that allows for that level of forgiveness, because if you grew up being made to feel guilty, it's easy to spiral into lethargy because you just feel like you can't get better.

So yeah. SU is bomb.

[scootkiddo]

ellie just confirmed that this wasn’t the first time she had shot/killed someone.

OH GOD NO. NO. DONT TELL ME ELLIE HAD TO SHOOT RILEY

[simply-ivanka]

Remember?

[ouroboros-hideout]

Happy Birthday, Hound Dog

OTP: Like Napalm 04/???

inspired by a sketch @blackrevell did some while ago of Aon sitting at a campfire at a lake. I thought it might be nice if she didn't need to go there alone.

[tinygamertris]

Tiny bit of very early Wuk Lamat feeling, behind the cut because potentially spoilery regardless:

I was initially very, very dubious about supporting Wuk Lamat. Not that she seemed like a bad person, just staggeringly naive! But in the small amount of Dawntrail story I've actually played now, she's grown on me a LOT.

She's the canditate who's focussed on people and their needs and their happiness. She's personable and warm and approachable, enthusiastic to learn about people and their culture and traditions, and in respecting them as best she can. Yes she's naive and silly, but I think she's going to grow out of that as she explores and meets more people.

At this point I feel like the ideal future for Tural would be her and Koana ruling together, honestly. He's very intelligent but also standoffish and uninterested in tradition. She's a bit of a dumbass, but she's also incredibly empathetic and wants to maintain peace. The two of them working together would be unstoppable!

[emin-folly]

Have some Silver Age Flash fluff

This is my first time posting anything of my writing, so I'm a bit nervous, ahah. This was a test to gauge my writing skills and how well I can mimic the Silver Age style~ The Flash and the Magnetic Menace - Anonymous - The Flash (Comics) [Archive of Our Own]

[ink-asunder]

I feel *so strongly* about Suzume and it's not even for ME what the Fuck

[loverboybrightsideghost]

just finished s1 on my relisten...damn this was just season one bruh they broke the world in SEASON ONE!!!

[heyitslapis]

Lapis and Peri get lost in Pennsylvania/Keystone. First thing that comes to mind?

Gay hi-jinks/gay impromptu vacation ensues....

[chainsawworld]

Thinking about. Madcom:]

[vintagedreamsofsennett]

released in Nov 24, 1913 / released in Feb 2, 1914

released in Mar 9, 1914 / released in Mar 26, 1914

released in Apr 4, 1914 / released in Apr 18, 1914

released in Apr 20, 1914 / released in Apr 27, 1914

released in Jun 11, 1914 / released in Nov 30, 1914

released in Dec 12, 1914 / released in Mar 4, 1915

[13thpythagoras]

tennis is a fun sport, if you wanna learn tennis shots, the main rules for practice are to first,

Learn consistency

then learn accuracy

and learn power only if you have those first two mastered.

If you do this you'll be playing a solid level of tennis fast...have fun :)

[incorrectbatfam]

Does the Batmobile ever get ticketed or does the GCPD just ignore it

Bruce: *puts a box on the table*

Bruce: Gather around, everyone. It's time for our monthly ticket review.

Bruce: First up, Steph. Can you explain what happened last Friday?

[earlier]

Steph: *looking for parking in a full lot*

Steph: Screw it, I'm going around back.

Steph: *parks in front of a fire exit*

[present]

Steph: I just needed to use the bathroom.

Bruce: And in those three minutes, the Joker released a giant water balloon forcing everyone to evacuate through one less exit.

Steph: It said "fire exit." That technically wasn't a fire.

Bruce: Well, the penalty is $100 plus the towing cost. I can pay it off but you have to help Alfred in the kitchen for a month.

Steph: Yeah, that's fair.

Bruce: Next up... Cass and Barbara? Color me surprised.

Barbara: Oh yeah, I had to remotely pilot the Batmobile the other day because Cass needed a getaway.

Bruce: Then why am I being charged $250?

[earlier]

Cass: *fighting a gang*

Barbara: Orphan, ETA thirty seconds. Prepare for extraction.

Cass: *knocks out the last henchman and runs to the car*

Comm. Gordon: *writing a ticket*

Cass: ?

Comm. Gordon: You're in a disabled parking spot without a permit.

[present]

Barbara: Well I am disabled.

Bruce: Understandable. I'll let it slide since it's the first time. Just file the paperwork for a permit.

Bruce: Dick, you went thirty-five over the speed limit when you weren't pursuing a suspect. Explain.

[earlier]

Wally: Race you to Keystone?

Dick: *revs the engine*

[present]

Bruce: You're better than this. I'm disappointed. Next up: Tim. Driving without a license plate. What happened there?

[earlier]

Tim: I wasn't supposed to take the Batmobile since Bruce benched me for my wrist, but my other ride is in the shop.

Kon: What about cameras? Can't your dad tap into the city's surveillance system?

Bart: Traffic cameras read license plates, so if we take them off, no one will recognize us.

Kon: Now that's an idea.

[present]

Tim: That's on me. I shouldn't have listened to them.

Bruce: Put them back on, plus you're benched for another week. Damian, on to you.

Damian: What on Earth could I have done? I followed the speed limit, parked in the correct spots, and never so much as changed lanes on an empty road without signalling.

[earlier]

Damian, a middle schooler: *driving*

[present]

Damian: Tt.

Bruce: Don't do it again. Duke...

Duke: *cringes and remembers what he did*

[earlier]

Duke: *hooks the Batmobile to a freezer trailer*

Duke: *starts driving around with a megaphone*

Duke: Ice cream! Get your ice cream!

[present]

Bruce: Fantastic job. No complaints.

Jason, muttering: Teacher's pet.

Bruce: And finally, Jason.

Bruce: *empties the rest of the box*

[iamthepulta]

I feel like some corporate schmuck tacking that onto a goodwill post, but it really bothers me!! If the Left really wants to get votes and understand the people, "the people" are not driving around in Teslas. They are the people at Target, at QT, at Starbucks making your sandwiches and cleaning up used needles without proper PPE. :(

[3liza]

one of my favorite things about Tumblr is that unless you're following a literal brand account or someone who has their first and last name as their username, you can follow someone who's just funny or shares your interests or something for like four years before you find out they're actually a famous artist or have 2 million YouTube subscribers or wrote a book that's considered a keystone reference work in all modern scholarship or whatever. one of many reasons this is the superior social media experience, which is impressive considering how bad it is here

[headspace-hotel]

There was this post a while ago where somebody was saying that Cheetahs aren't well suited to Africa and would do well in Midwestern North America, and it reminded me of Paul S. Martin, the guy I'm always pissed off about.

He had some good ideas, but he is most importantly responsible for the overkill hypothesis (idea that humans caused the end-Pleistocene extinctions and that climate was minimally a factor) which led to the idea of Pleistocene rewilding.

...Basically this guy thought we should introduce lions, cheetahs, camels, and other animals to North America to "rewild" the landscape to what it was like pre-human habitation, and was a major advocate for re-creating mammoths.

Why am I pissed off about him? Well he denied that there were humans in North America prior to the Clovis culture, which it's pretty well established now that there were pre-Clovis inhabitants, and in general promoted the idea that the earliest inhabitants of North America exterminated the ecosystem through destructive and greedy practices...

...which has become "common knowledge" and used as evidence for anyone who wants to argue that Native Americans are "Not So Innocent, Actually" and the mass slaughter and ecosystem devastation caused by colonialism was just what humans naturally do when encountering a new environment, instead of a genocidal campaign to destroy pre-existing ways of life and brutally exploit the resources of the land.

It basically gives the impression that the exploitative and destructive relationship to land is "human nature" and normal, which erases every culture that defies this characterization, and also erases the way indigenous people are important to ecosystems, and promotes the idea of "empty" human-less ecosystems as the natural "wild" state.

And also Martin viewed the Americas' fauna as essentially impoverished, broken and incomplete, compared with Africa which has much more species of large mammals, which is glossing over the uniqueness of North American ecosystems and the uniqueness of each species, such as how important keystone species like bison and wolves are.

It's also ignoring the taxa and biomes that ARE extraordinarily diverse in North America, for example the Appalachian Mountains are one of the most biodiverse temperate forests on Earth, the Southeastern United States has the Earth's most biodiverse freshwater ecosystems, and both of these areas are also a major global hotspot for amphibian biodiversity and lichen biodiversity. Large mammals aren't automatically the most important. With South America, well...the Amazon Rainforest, the Brazilian Cerrado and the Pantanal wetlands are basically THE biodiversity hotspot of EVERYTHING excepting large mammals.

It's not HIM I have a problem with per se. It's the way his ideas have become so widely distributed in pop culture and given people a muddled and warped idea of ecology.

If people think North America was essentially a broken ecosystem missing tons of key animals 500 years ago, they won't recognize how harmful colonization was to the ecosystem or the importance of fixing the harm. Who cares if bison are a keystone species, North America won't be "fixed" until we bring back camels and cheetahs...right?

And by the way, there never were "cheetahs" in North America, Miracinonyx was a different genus and was more similar to cougars than cheetahs, and didn't have the hunting strategy of cheetahs, so putting African cheetahs in North America wouldn't "rewild" anything.

Also people think its a good idea to bring back mammoths, which is...no. First of all, it wouldn't be "bringing back mammoths," it would be genetically engineering extant elephants to express some mammoth genes that code for key traits, and second of all, the ecosystem that contained them doesn't exist anymore, and ultimately it would be really cruel to do this with an intelligent, social animal. The technology that would be used for this is much better used to "bring back" genetic diversity that has been lost from extant critically endangered species.

I think mustangs should get to stay in North America, they're already here and they are very culturally important to indigenous groups. And I think it's pretty rad that Scimitar-horned Oryx were brought back in their native habitat only because there was a population of them in Texas. But we desperately, DESPERATELY need to re-wild bison, wolves, elk, and cougars across most of their former range before we can think about introducing camels.